The Keyboard Activist

WE do nothing.  
WE are keyboard activists.  
WE click our index finger, roll an arrow and click again.  
WE do nothing to change anything beyond our bras and whites and our television shows.
WE live in safe neighborhoods.
WE get spooked if a dog barks past ten.  
WE have never been in trouble with the law, never been penniless, never been scared to walk down a street.  
WE have never been forcefully separated from our ten-year old daughter and watched her caged.
WE have never been gunned down.
WE have never marched, never protested, never did nothing but feed our own petty causes.  
WE have never even donated to a cause.  Heck, the wallets in the other room. Next time.  Maybe.
WE live in a bubble.  
And WE know it.
But WE can't admit it.  
Because WE lost our balls years ago.
WE make up stories about our past.  Things that never even happened. Like ever.  
Like that touchdown or
that threesome or
that million dollar deal.  
WE are afraid of the unknown.  
That's why WE curse it
and try to bury it.  
WE live in Candyland, where the waters always hot,
the freezer is loaded with fish
and our necks are safe from being knelled on.  
WE never had to watch our wife or brother or child die of COVID-19 via Zoom.  
But WE know what it's like.
WE live in an area where there's less than 10 total deaths by the virus, but WE will speak for the people of Chicago or Boston.  
Because WE know.  
WE know "It's only like 1% of people are dying."  Oh, WE know.  
WE follow people on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram that are true activists.  
Then WE pretend that we're an activist too for "liking" a page.
WE lie in bed hungover on Saturday's when millions of others were marching in the streets, mad as hell.  
Then WE get to clicking and commentating.
WE boast and steal commentary from people who boast and steal commentary then WE call it our own.  
WE know nothing about fact because we don't know anything about the facts. Yet WE pretend because you know a guy who knows a guy....  
WE are administrators, blue collar workers,
Mom's, students, sales hacks and whack jobs.  
And WE are a large part of the problem.
All of us do-nothings.  
Big talkers.
 
WE are the Keyboard Activists.